San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-25
EDITORIAL BREpITIES.

The remark grows monotonOus, that
you cannot nationally expect $40 legis-
lation out of So Legislators. That is tue
size OF Ii.
SEEING how the days pass and the bills
do not, one begins TO wonder why the
legislature OF Texas was convened In
session ut all. and the wonder Is likely to
grow bigger 70 the end Of the chapter.
Arkansas has a bill under considera-
ton prohibiting boys under sixteen
years from smoking cigarettes. II the
slippers of the mothers cannot prevent
the habit the bills of the legislature will
prove pOwerless.
The Kansas Legislature grows partic-
ular and asks certificate OF good moral
characters from the neighbors as a pre-
requisite to granting a druggists license
to sell liquor for medicinal purposes.
LITTLE COSTA RIGA has level head
and we'll balanced brain. Her minister
Of the interior has prohibited the land
ing OF any bias-eyed slaves of the celes-
tial highbinders on that island. His
policy should be adopted in America.
THE south fatters itself that Dan
Manning's successor will be n southern
man. He will be the man through whom
Grover can best figure Influence to aid
his chances for denomination.
TIE only hope of the prohibition party
In Texas lies In the direction Of defeat
ing the proposed submission of the
question to the people and in maintain
ing liquor licenses at the lowest possible
figure.
The projected refrigerator scheme in
this city meets with hearty approval
and words Of encouragement from every
section OF southwest Texas Its benefits
are clearly fOrseen and its coming ar
IDENTITY lOnged for.
AUSTIN has fallen heir to the aequlsi-
tiveDess OF the hOrse-leeche's two
daughters. She Continually cries.
Give! Give! She wants the state to
father the public improvements OF the
city and pay for them. Not until the
city is turned into penal colony can she
hopefully look for this result.
JEFFERSON has her witch hazel worse
twisted than the Witch OF Endor twist
ed old Saul's optics. The coal company
boring for coal, strikes artesian well at
800 feet; John Gray, digging for water,
strikes bed of anthracite coal $50
oalled) and gets black diamonds instead
of Adams ale.
ST. LOUIS promises to be quite an &C.
tive iron center this season. The old
Meier works, costing $I50,000, for sew
eral years idle, will soon blow in their
furnace and start up in East st. Louis,
adding materially to the productive ca
pacity of the mills at the Illinois end of
the big bridge.
Texas rolls up too strong democratic
majority for Mr. Cleveland to feel 60
fictitious about her vote, hence his veto
of her relief application. Had it been
Indiana or New York there would have
been no veto hit with the presidential
Ratchet Of constitutional inhibition.
THE JImplicute Is not as cute as the
adenda of its own name would make 1t
appear, when IL charges that San Anto-
MO is the home Of concentrated bur-
glar boom. There is no city OF its size
In the southwest less infested with bur-
glars. Examine the records for proof.
THE Waco Examiner poses as the mild
mouthed exponent of journalistic cour-
tesy and then writes: 1.-The Laredo
Times don't have to be consistent to es.
tablish its claims to being fool" The
Examiner evidently is not apatient that
believes in taking his. self-prescribed
remedies.
The bill introduced into the Texas leg
islature providing for the maintenance
OF a pack of blood hounds to be used in
tracking fugitiyes from justice smacks
altogether too much of the old slave
hunting days to be acceptable now.
The proposition does no credit to the
man who introduced it. Its adoption
would be no credit to the state.
THE curious in such matters are trsc-
ing the religious beliefs of the governor
and lieutenant governor OF this state,
one Of whom is declared to be a Metho-
dist and the othera Baptist. Sprinkled,
or plunged, OF neither, makes DIFF
ference to the people of the state. so
long as the duties of their respective Of
fees are faithfully discharged.
THE republican party can very readily
forgive the sins committed against her
by democrats in Washington county last
fall, but how democrats can forgive the
outrage which so politically reflects up
on them is another question. The demo-
cratic party for her own salvation from
shame should pillory those ballot box
stealers before high heaven and the ma
tion, and swear eternal reputation OF
them and their deeds.